Spanish-Flea says, 'yes, people gripe that druids still have the greatest
advantage, and these changes do not do much to change that, is there any
change to shove a proverbial crayon up those damn augmentor's noses any time
soon?'

Sandra says, 'right now, we have no plans on changing augmenters. key words
being 'right now''

LadyAce says, 'well, we avoided doing things that are boosty to them :) is a
start!'

Spanish-Flea cheers for LadyAce - huzzah!

Sandra says, 'we've left them out of things tho, definately'

Sandra nods her agreement with LadyAce.

Ea! says, 'It is a problem that we're aware of, though.'

LadyAce says, 'If you have ideas on that, post 'em to discussion. We've talked
about it internally too, but maybe you have ideas we've not had yet on how to
address it :)'

Sandra says, 'it's more of a "we wanna see what these changes will do first"
kinda thing'

Ruby says, 'I want to question the skill reimbursal policy. Why not reimburse
most skills when making changes like this? I think it would encourage people to
play their chars longer. This would make the mud much more stable in terms of
player base and poeple getting to know each other better'

Spanish-Flea says, 'what do you take into account when you consider
reimbs?'

Ruby says, 'well I want to vote for more skill reimb. And my vote should count
as much as Kaige's!'

Sandra says, 'for things like the inspire change, we consider the skill,
obviously, and any prereqs tha were needed'

Kaige nods her agreement with Sandra.

LadyAce says, 'We usually take a look at what skills people won't be able to
actually use because of a change, as a baseline'

Ruby says, 'I think it should be broader than skill prereqs'

Ea! says, 'We want to allow people to reimb stuff, but we don't want to over
burden the admins and we don't want people to be able to reverse decisions
they made about their character that aren't related to our changes.'

Kaige says to Ea!, 'and has to be codable in acts.'

Myrthorn raises an eyebrow inquiringly.

LadyAce says, 'though automating them with ooc mobs helps with some of
that'

Kaige nods her agreement with LadyAce.

Ruby says, 'what does a fighter do that wasted all his skill points on
shipbuilding, fishing and such just because h e couldn't learn anything
useful'

Sandra says, 'you should smack the fighter? ;)'

Ruby grumbles.

Ruby says, 'Skill tree's were just a myth though'

Jenna peers at Ruby, looking him up and down.

Ea! says, 'Still are.'

Jenna says, 'none of my straight fighters have managed to use up all their
pracs'

LadyAce says, 'We are targetting these changes at fighters -- so we're not
going to stick you with a reimb policy that keeps everyone from using them'

Jenna says, 'and they have such "useless" skills as shipbuilding and
fishing'

Ruby says, 'it was a game with me for awhile. Learn the most useless skills
you can.'

Spanish-Flea says, 'yes, but that's the same logic as saying that people with
old eq are rewarded for being around longer'

Spanish-Flea says, 'so why should imms reimb without junking all old eq'

Ruby says, 'people should be rewarded for being around longer'

Ruby says, 'oldbie's helped shape the mud into what it is'

Spanish-Flea says, 'and I'm probably 400-500 rent less than my present day
self even after a year'

LadyAce says, 'I don't think we'll do totally unrelated skills, but a lot of
things are changing. See what you think when we post the policy.'

Sandra says, 'we aren't really sure that we will reimb things for the new
skills. For changes, sure. It's fair. But I'm personally not so sure on new
skills.'

Spanish-Flea says, 'are there any plans for areas that are meant to be done
with a party of maybe 3-4 people comprised of only one healer?'

Sandra says, 'I can't think of any at the moment'

LadyAce says, 'AT you can run with 3 people and a healer :P'

Sandra nods her agreement with LadyAce.

Sandra says, 'we've done it!'

Stupidity says, '3 people and a healer?'

Sandra says, 'course we died a few times, but hey'

LadyAce says, 'people load up with tons of people for it, but it doesn't have
to be that way.'

Stupidity says, 'assassin can't be scatter anymore right?'

Lilian snickers softly.

Huginn says, 'let's go do it now.. sandra, you be the healer, LA can tank'

Spanish-Flea says, 'I mean like a PD, but one that can't be soloed, but is
still doable if you get say a druid or surgy a hitter a mage and a tank?'

LadyAce says, 'we didn't have a healer'

Jenna says, 'you can run PD with 3 people and a healer'

Jenna says, 'i wouldn't recommend it tho'

Sandra says, 'aw, I wanna shoot!'

Spanish-Flea says, 'wanna try delgado or de santa with 3 people and a
healer?'

Ruby says to Sandra, 'that would be a dull run'

Huginn laughs.

Sandra says, 'true'

Huginn says, 'ok I'll heal, you shoot'

Sandra giggles.

Stupidity says to Spanish-Flea, 'not like you can't, I mean, if you want, and
have hps, you can flee '

Lilian says, 'De Santa's mean'

LadyAce says, 'the essential thing is -- it's hard to make something designed
for a specific group config without making artificial restrictions'

Spanish-Flea says, 'I mean an area worth maybe 300k-400k xp for every party
member that is fully doable with a small party, because big parties are
noticeably rarer'

Sandra nods her agreement with LadyAce.

Spanish-Flea says, 'not if you make tunnel rooms everywhere'

Sandra says, 'you can do that probably in any other area'

Spanish-Flea says, 'technically, I could solo the first floor of AT right
now'

LadyAce says, 'I mean, if I make a lvl 40 grouping mob intended to be killed
by groups of lev 30ish players....a single lev 40 person would con them and
get slaughtered, and 50s would like, kill it for sport'

LadyAce says, 'so we'd hafta target it pretty tightly'

Spanish-Flea says, 'true, but even then'

LadyAce says, 'not so easy and starts to get kinda sucky'

LadyAce says, '"can't kill this mob unless you are a lev 35, good bye."'

LadyAce shrugs helplessly.

Spanish-Flea says, 'areas should be open to change, I mean I've stopped
playing a lot more because all I can do is get on, get some charmies from
klein if a create hasn't money run it *major gripe* and then ask if there's a
run and log off'

LadyAce says, 'well, maybe you should break out of your rut :)'

Sandra says, 'it sounds like you should ask for a hitter and healer and patrol
the other areas'

Spanish-Flea says, 'my healer has been stuck in his 30's for over two weeks
now due to the fact that nobody will xp run with a druid nor will they start a
run without like 5 druids or one online surgy with time'

LadyAce says, 'solo the first level of AT, teach a newbie how to spit, jump
the grand canyon....'

LadyAce says, 'there are a lot of people stuck in that rut. Declare war on it
:P'

Lilian snickers softly.

Spanish-Flea says, 'we can't'

Spanish-Flea says, 'these changes will help'

Jenna says, 'there has seemed to be a large wane in runs'

Spanish-Flea says, 'more liman surgeons'

Sandra says, 'go thru the other areas and kill mobs there. There's more than 3
areas in the game, contrary to popular belief'

Lilian nods her agreement with Jenna.

Spanish-Flea says, 'I do'

Huginn says, 'fewer soloings of PD by creates'

Spanish-Flea says, 'but unless I can animate dancing swords in indus or
ancient, and I do mean good dancing swords like saebels or broad axes, I'm
fairly stuck'

Spanish-Flea says, 'kleins is just such an amazing area'

Ruby says, 'when will you people get off the charmy kick? you don't need
charmys to play the game'

Myrella nods her agreement with Ruby.

Lilian grins evilly at Ruby.. wonder what she's thinking...

Spanish-Flea says, 'you need charmies to xp'

Myrella says, 'I'm a create and I hate charmies'

Sandra says, 'no you don't'

Spanish-Flea says, 'you can xp with a surgeon and a tank'

Jenna says, 'you don't.. but it helps when you can't find a healer'

Spanish-Flea says, 'i'll get a full army and full mana'

Spanish-Flea says, 'we'll see who gets more xp faster'

Myrella says, 'but without a direct healing spell I need them at times'

Gho says to Spanish-Flea, 'it's not a race, man.'

Lilian says, 'I realy really hate trying to get xp on my own, and finding,
everywhere I go, a million bloody zombies or skeletons, that some mage leaves
there until repop, and kills everything again'

LadyAce says, 'there's no hard limit per se, but I imagine there's a practical
limit'

Lorenzo nods solemnly.

Kaige says, 'There is a hard limit on the total weight you can carry and the
number of items in the first layer of inventory you can carry, so yes, there
is a hard limit that way, but not to the number items in your pfile'

This section is intended to address some of the things that come up repeatedly
and also provide a place where players can submit questions via the feedback
channel (Q&A) so questions can be logged when they're thought of and the
answers reported back here.

Also, some of the builders will often have some feedback on suggestions and
typos that get reported with some of their reasoning for why things are the way
they are or won't be incorporated into the areas.